La Mission, on the Île d'Yeu off the Vendée coast, hosts seminars, team-building days and weddings for up to 100 guests, and the hotel can be privatized for a group. It has 22 bedrooms, a restaurant, a rooftop bar, a wine bar, a garden, a pool and a spa, all at 12 rue de la Missionnaire on the island.
Seminars and company events
The hotel sells meeting packages built around flexible rooms with current presentation equipment, suited to several formats from a workshop to a plenary for a small team. Island days lend themselves to team building, and the hotel offers group activities outdoors, from sports challenges to creative workshops. Because the island is reached by boat, a company that books the whole hotel gets a group that stays together from arrival to departure, with no commute between sessions, meals and evenings.
Weddings and receptions
For weddings, the hotel provides modular event spaces, a planning team, flower decoration and its own cooking. Couples can combine a cocktail on the rooftop, a seated dinner in the restaurant and a relaxed meal in the garden on the following day.
Rooms and capacities
La Missionnaire, the restaurant, seats 85 guests and takes 100 for a standing reception. La Vigie, the rooftop, seats 35 and holds 50 standing. Les Casiers, the wine and tapas bar, seats 30 and holds 50 standing. The food truck and garden can seat 100 for a lunch or a dinner. Each space can be booked on its own, and the hotel also offers privatization of the whole property for weddings, seminars or team-building events.
Accommodation
The 22 bedrooms are split into suites of 50 square meters for up to four adults and two children, with a mezzanine bedroom and bunk beds; Deluxe rooms of 27 square meters, some with a private terrace; Deluxe Triple rooms of 27 square meters over the inner garden; and Supérieure rooms of 25 square meters. For several room types, a shuttle from the port to the hotel is included.
Catering
Catering is in-house. The restaurant, led by chef Thomas Ratier, serves shared plates and seafood on a menu that changes daily. Sample event menus include a seated dinner with a choice of fish, vegetable or beef main, a rooftop cocktail with hot and cold bites, shared tapas at the bar, and seafood platters and grilled dishes from the food truck in the garden. The 1802 rum bar is open all day.
History and setting
The hotel takes its name from the street it stands on, rue de la Missionnaire. Guests have use of a pool and a Nuxe spa during the day, and a food truck runs in the garden in July and August, which gives groups a choice of settings within the same property.
Getting there
The Île d'Yeu is reached by passenger ferry from the Vendée coast, with crossings from Fromentine. The hotel runs a shuttle from the island's port for guests in several room categories, so a group can be collected on arrival and taken straight to the hotel.
